The technological and intellectual impact of the digital humanities on the university is undeniable. Even as some observers hail the digital humanities as a savior of humanistic disciplines in crisis, critical questions about its nature and potential remain unanswered. The contributors to this special issue explicitly critique and engage the digital humanities, rather than simply celebrating the still-emerging field. This collection brings tog...
Twentieth-century ideologies, from liberalism to fascism, are rooted in humanism--the faith in the sovereignty of human reason and potential that grew out of Renaissance thought and discovery. This special issue asks if it is true that all vestiges of humanism have been dismantled, or whether humanism has taken on new forms. Have new versions of historical analysis and cultural studies reanimated humanist themes? What is posthumanism? These es...
Elizabeth Weed¿is Director Emeritus of the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women at Brown University.¿Ellen Rooney¿is Professor of Modern Culture and Media and Professor of English at Brown University.Contributors: Étienne Balibar, Banu Bargu, Judith Butler, Warren Montag, Adi Ophir, Bruce Robbins, Ellen Rooney, and Elizabeth Weed¿
Elizabeth Weed is Director Emerita of the Pembroke Center at Brown University and the editor of The Question of Gender: Joan W. Scott’s Critical Feminism. Ellen Rooney is Professor of Modern Culture and Media and of English at Brown University and the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Feminist Literary Theory. Weed and Rooney edit differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies.
